Kindle, And The Bloody Burden of Expectation

Added on 29 March 2011

There's a great line near the end of Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner realises that the baseball player on the other side of the diamond is his father as a young man, brought back to him because Kevin built the field in the middle of a patch of corn. 'My God,' he says. 'I only saw him years later ...

Cow Shit

Added on 28 March 2011

Whilst out walking the other day in this Green and Pleasant Land, past piles of rubbish and urinating arseholes too lazy to walk to the nearest toilet, I noticed there was a farmer rolling a cow field. Not cutting the grass or some such, just running a roller across it so that it looked nice. Like W...

In Conversation With Elvis Shackleton #341

Added on 22 March 2011

In the latest of their popular series of Conversation Pieces, Douglas Lindsay talks to Long Midnight Publishing Marketing Supremo, Elvis Shackleton: Elvis Shackleton: We may as well start with the news that everyone's talking about. Is it true that this is likely to be your last blog for, what some ...

Mars Spacecraft Design Unveiled

Added on 21 March 2011

In extraordinary scenes earlier today, here at Long Midnight Publishing HQ in downtown Bandar Sera Begawan, the world famous publishing company-turned space exploration mega-corporation unveiled the design for the space craft with which they intend putting two men on the surface of Mars by early 201...

The Curious Incident of The Song In The Prime Time

Added on 18 March 2011

What with having a nearly teenage daughter in the house, for the first time in almost twenty-five years I'm being forced to follow the ups and downs of the Hit Parade. (Possibly they don't call it that anymore.) Suddenly I remember that curious feeling of being annoyed when a song you don't like doe...